Today’s Rude Transit Rider
People that leave a mess on the seat
You know how it is, you get on the bus, it's crowded, but you see one open seat all the way in the back. So, you hitch your bag onto your shoulder, and carefully move down the isle to your seat .
That' right, your seat, you've seen it, and, in your mind at least, you've claimed it. You probably wouldn't fight for the seat, but you might snarl, like a dog defending the best spot to sleep (you know the one, under the porch, out of the sun), if anyone tries to take it.
Anyway, you get all the way to back, to your seat, and only then do you find out what almost every other person on the bus knows, but doesn't know how to tell you "You don't want to sit there because the seat is covered by something that you, and everybody else that thought they might be able to sit there, can't (or won't) sit on or clean off".
It might be something recognizable, like sugar or chocolate, or it might be some kind of unrecognizable goo that looks like it could only be left behind by a group of sick snails. What it is doesn't matter, though, what matters is that you can't sit there because some rude or thoughtless or merely careless person has left a mess.
That person is today's rude transit rider.